Apple’s new Xcode 3 Mac development suite is included on the installation DVD for Mac OS X 10.5 and on new Macs on which Leopard has already been installed. You can also get a copy by going to http://developer.apple.com and signing up for a free Online membership. Then go to http://connect.apple.com and sign in with your new password, click on Downloads, and down Xcode 3 from Developer Tools.

Xcode 3 Unleashed is intended for beginner to experienced developers of Macintosh applications (programs). It comes with a CD which includes all examples and source code presented in the book.

Xcode 3 contains all you need to write, edit, debug, test and compile Universal Binary programs to run on both Intel and PowerPC Macs. This book takes you through the whole development cycle.

If you seriously want to learn to create Macintosh software, you might want to start with this book. I cannot evaluate Xcode 3 Unleashed for you because I have not written any software since Apple started making Macintosh computers and stopped making Apples.